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Add my vote for copy paste, as long as it includes the amperage/wire speed discussion from the earlier welding conversation.
Harry Potter and the Skittering Spouse
- Thread starter Fencer
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- Crossover Fantasy Superhero
Fencer
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Thought about. You guys get the good deal. I'll copy paste canon into the chapter with some edits to reaffirm that Taylor exists even though I don't think she'll have much of anything's to add to the scene. But I'll put that in spoilers and I'm leaving it out of the ff.net version because it's really just a massive block of words that are only important in that skipping them would make for the most awkward random transition I've ever had in a fic.
I'm glad we are getting a copy paste as it shows that she is there and acts as a huge point of reference for those who have not read the Potter books. But don't stress out too much and just have fun. Also I can't wait for bug senses to be used for all this such as Tay noticing the fact the armchair has a pulse or things of that nature. And also Dumbledore leaving them along and she is still snooping. "Is he . . . Is he really reading a magazine of quilting patterns while we recruit a teacher for him?"
Fencer
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Sorry all. Meant to throw myself into writing this weekend but got blindsided by a cold and I spent half of my time awake yesterday getting issues with my phone sorted. I'm really pretty terrible at this time management thing I keep hearing about, and that's on a good week when I'm not miserable. On the other hand I'm down to like twenty open tabs. Which is crazy but promises a writing rush when I finally run out of things to read.
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The Scholar
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- At the Library
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- He
Damn bro, you usually have ONE HUNDRED tabs open at any time. You are going places.
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Fencer
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Well ya know how it goes you start catching up some stories stop updating and before you know it. You're staring down the last 15 or 20 chapters of trailblazer wondering if your poor heart can take the tension of each new chapter and you just find yourself grinding through a few slow updates for other fics to put it off because good grief too much emotion!!!!!
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I have somewhere above 200 chrome tabs on my phone, mostly fics that I've started and forgotten about. I don't what to think about how many I have on my PC in the 17 various windows I have open. I salute you good sir, but I fear that I will never reach you're accomplishment.
Fencer
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Heh I usually manage to keep it to a dull roar of 50 to 80 but then I'll hit the stumbling block of new long fics or reread old long fics. And it'll balloon out to like 120. Still got ooooooh 200 alerts on SB to go through and decide what is and isn't worth my time and about 50 here but ehhh. That's a long boring process of catching up on 3 or four good fics mixed with who knows how many would have been long fics of middling quality that never saw a third update to dismiss forever. Now that I'm finally getting caught up… eh we'll see what happens. Either I'll go nuts writing my own stories or I'll find another list of recs somewhere and forget the world all over again.
verycoolname
Not actually cool
If proof was ever needed that modern humans have the attention span of a goldfish…
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- Russia
There's actually been research that shows that everyone who says "People remembered things in the past!" is engaging in wishful thinking. It's just that, back in the day, instead of looking shit up on Google, we instead desperately searched for a person who knows things.
So nah, we always had the attention span of a goldfish, it's just that things were less readily available back then.
Fencer
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I am just about the most ADD person I have ever met. As of 16 minutes ago I am a 30 years old and still about as much of a goofball as I was at 16 or twenty or any age in-between. If I live to be 80 I'll prolly be just as goofy. Reading is how I self medicate. Not because it makes me more focused on what I'm doing, if anything it's the opposite. But it's the only way I could sit still when I was younger and it keeps my boredom in check and means I don't drive everyone I meet up the wall with my rambling and antics. Basically don't use me as a measuring stick. Really it's a miracle I manage to stick with my stories for multiple years through all the distractions of real life.
God Of Urging
Diety of Induced Impulses
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- Turkey
I vaguely recall reading about some research that found that people who hadn't become literate until later in their lives tend to have somewhat better memory than people who had learned to read as children, with the trade-off of having a somewhat harder time with abstract thinking; which would suggest that our modern world (modern in the we're-past-the-19th-century-and-have-nation-states-with-public-education sense), with its higher literacy rate overall and increased likelihood of receiving an education during one's childhood may have contributed to reduced memory capacity on our parts.
Not sure whether that's up-to-date, though. It's been nearly a decade since I read it, and I'm not sure how recent it was when I did.
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- Washington, USA
I see this sort of thing about having hundreds of tabs open all the time in fanfic discussions and I'm just sitting here thinking 'what are you people doing!?' and 'how is your browser not crashing all the time from the strain?'. Oh my goodness, just use you browser's bookmarks feature. That's the intended way to keep track of a particular webpage, not keeping god knows how many dozens of tabs open. You can even sort bookmarks into folders to keep better track of them. It honestly baffles me why so many people don't understand this. How do people live with out bookmarks?
Exasperated off-topic rant aside: Good story, bro! Been a while since I've seen the 'Vegas wedding' prompt done this well and not at all with Worm before. Looking forward to more!
Suryn
On the wings of a Dragon
I recently bought more ram to deal with the fact I keep way to many tabs open. It noticeably affected performance.
Bookmarking is good, but I have to remember I have the bookmark to go back to it
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Worm Story Search is my homepage on my phone, and replaced the need to keep so many bookmarks and tabs.
I always ask when I see this- do you remember to go back to all your tabs? It feels like they should take up the same thought process, going back to them when it's time to check on whatever it is you saved and mostly just ignoring them the rest of the time.
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Tabs are right there in your direct view, meanwhile going to your bookmarks requires two or three extra clicks depending on your browser.
That is very much a mental barrier for many people. A slight one, not one that is particularly impactful, but the difference is very much felt, as any competent UI/UX designer will tell you, especially for stuff that you are expected to access often.
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Suryn
On the wings of a Dragon
I have roughly 250 tabs open. I check them maybe every other month with a glance over. My bookmarks unless I'm hunting for something specifc which I know I have bookmarked, I don't look over
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- USA
And that's about what I'm getting at. When you have any number open that you're not doing more than checking what they are every now and then and then going back to ignoring them, how long until it's safe to say they don't really need to be there? Not to sound like I'm calling anyone out, you were just the two to reply lol, but what's the point where you can tell yourself the tab opened because it looked interesting isn't interesting enough to keep it there because I'm clearly not getting back to it?
The example being, if you put all but the ten most used tabs in a bookmark folder instead of leaving open tabs, how much would it really change your likelihood of spending more than a few minutes reminding yourself they exist now and then? Genuine question, from someone who's computer gets cranky if I have more than ten things open anywhere.
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Very much so, mostly because when it is not occassionally popping up in my vision when I'm idly doing something else, it tends to just flat out disappear from memory and there's nothing to remind me of its existence. Especially when you consider that I don't have a habit of occasionally checking my bookmarks folder for something.
Generally, I use Bookmarks for long-term storage, stuff that I want to keep track of for years, preferably forever, not just some stuff to check out at some point.
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It's really this part for me. Anything that I haven't gotten to within a week, I've realized I'm probably not going to unless I do it right now, and if I've somehow gone a full month without doing anything about it then I definitely never will so best to just get rid of it and keep spending my time and energy on the stuff that's actually been occupying my time. At what point does something become worth dropping in long term storage or just plain dropping?
Admittedly this was one of those life lessons learned from therapy, but there's only so many hours in a week and I personally had to learn how to actually spend them. This random prompt aside, will you really take the time out of what you're doing in tab 1 to read through and finish tab 178? Or is it just kept there on the idea of getting to it some day?
I genuinely want to know, how other people think has fascinated ever since the mentioned therapy turned out to be as helpful as it did. Sorry if it's coming off aggressive, it's just an aggressive curiosity.
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- Oregon
I have about 60 tabs open in chrome (my forum/Ao3 browser) on my phone, and maybe 55 in the adblock browser I use to slog through the morass that is FFN dredging for gold in the muck of a few fandoms I hadn't touched in years until 6-8 months ago. (I don't mind ads, but not intrusively jammed between paragraphs, thanks)
I keep the numbers low by periodically purging anything that hasn't updated in like half a year, or just deciding to close a fandom's tab group because I haven't touched it in months. The things worth catching my interest are sure to manage it again one of the times they update, or when I skim a fandom sorted by whatever site's version of likes.
I keep the numbers low by periodically purging anything that hasn't updated in like half a year, or just deciding to close a fandom's tab group because I haven't touched it in months. The things worth catching my interest are sure to manage it again one of the times they update, or when I skim a fandom sorted by whatever site's version of likes.
Álli Méra
Sometimes I forget my name
Mood Kindred!
The advent of smart phones has been a blessing and a curse for me for me. On the one hand, it's probably helped to save my spine. On the other, it's made checking out far to easy for me to do.
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Happy Birthday!
And I've been trying to use the "reading list" in chrome but I still have dozens of tabs open so I never get down to wanting to look for more and the open tabs grab my attention. Also it's not visible on my phone but open tabs on other devices are.
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Ah, I think I see the confusion.
Not sure how actually common it is, but at least I don't go through tabs one at a time, from first to last. I constantly scroll back and forth, jumping between them. To me, the tabs is not a to-do list, but instead a menu with some websites being straight up permanently open, never leaving the tab list no matter what.
So for me, the tab list is for websites that I use constantly at the moment, jumping between them depending on what I'm currently doing, along with short-term storage of stuff I want to get to some time soon, while bookmarks is for long-term storage of stuff I might want to keep track of for years at a time.
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Fencer
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This soooo much this. Like maybe today I'm in the mood for a RWBY fic because I want cool weapons and ridiculous fighting styles. Or maybe I want some Harry potter because I'm just done and want something utterly simple as a backdrop to whatever narrative the author is going for. Or maybe I'm finally ready to tackle the super tense emotional gut punch of a chapter in that one fic where we find out if the team will stay together or if there's going to be a painful betrayal! And don't get me started on those long rambling slice of life fics where lots and yet nothing happens for tens of thousands of words or more. Sooner or later I need to walk away from those for a bit before I'm willing to come back for round two.